If the chaff-cutter had the making of us, we should all be straw, I reckon. George Eliot.
If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it. Pr.
If the deil were dead, folk would do little for 15 God's sake. Sc. Pr.
If the devil takes a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as he was with them. Lowell.
If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it. Sc. Pr.
If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries. Emerson.
If the eye were not of a sunny nature (sonnenhaft), how could it see the sun? If God's own power did not exist within us, how could the godlike delight us? Goethe.
If the farmer cannot live who drives the plough, 20 how can he live who drives a fast-trotting mare? Pr.
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, / The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. Gay.
If the hungry lion (invited to a feast of chickenweed) is to feast at all, it cannot be on the chickenweed, but only on the chickens. Carlyle.